Exuma is the destination behind the single most shared Bahamas photo of the last decade — pigs swimming up to boats in impossibly turquoise water at Pig Beach. But the wider Exuma chain offers far more than that one viral moment: hundreds of islands and cays scattered across water so clear it photographs almost identically to how it looks in person, nurse shark encounters, and a far quieter, more remote feel than Nassau just a short flight away. It rewards visitors who come specifically for the water and the islands rather than resort infrastructure, which remains deliberately limited here.